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Lab Produces 3.6 Billion Degree Gas

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hotter-than-the-sun dept.

starexplorer2001 writes "LiveScience is reporting how scientists at Sandia's Z laboratory have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit (2 billion kelvins). That's hotter than the interior of our sun, which is only 15 million degrees F. And they don't know how they did it. Do we want anything that hot on our planet?"

2 of 594 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Summary is wrong yet again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is embarrassing that so many people in the US still use these damn stupid units.

    Here is another interesting Live"Science" article:
    http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/051219_chi mps_split.html
    Search for "Max Plank" (it should read Max Planck).
    Oh, and the title of the article is "When Humans and Chimps Split" - well done on this one!

  2. Re:How are they holding it? by Bugpowda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This one is way more bitchin... http://www.sandia.gov/media/images/jpg/f4_image2.j pg